2018 BRFSS Survey Results: Medicaid Region 2

Demographics

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  Total
Respond.^		 Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
North Carolina 4,610 829 14.9 13.7-16.2 3,781 85.1 83.8-86.3
Medicaid Region 2 647 110 13.9 11.3-16.9 537 86.1 83.1-88.7
GENDER
Male 297 41 9.7 6.8-13.6 256 90.3 86.4-93.2
Female 350 69 17.7 13.7-22.4 281 82.3 77.6-86.3
RACE
Non-Hispanic White 471 80 14.1 11.0-17.8 391 85.9 82.2-89.0
Non-Hispanic Black 110 19 12.8 7.9-20.2 91 87.2 79.8-92.1
Other 66 11 14.5 7.3-26.5 55 85.5 73.5-92.7
AGE
18-44 211 *** *** *** 203 96.3 92.6-98.2
45-64 229 51 20.7 15.6-27.0 178 79.3 73.0-84.4
65+ 196 51 23.9 17.7-31.4 145 76.1 68.6-82.3
EDUCATION
H.S. or Less 233 58 18.5 13.8-24.2 175 81.5 75.8-86.2
Some Post-H.S. 190 32 14.0 9.7-19.8 158 86.0 80.2-90.3
College Graduate 221 19 6.1 3.6-10.2 202 93.9 89.8-96.4
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
Less than $50,000 271 64 19.8 15.2-25.4 207 80.2 74.6-84.8
$50,000+ 247 20 7.0 4.2-11.3 227 93.0 88.7-95.8
Don't know/Not sure or Refused 129 26 15.1 9.8-22.4 103 84.9 77.6-90.2

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to changes in the weighting methodology and other factors, results from 2018 are NOT comparable to 2010
and earlier years.

***The estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards. See BRFSS 2018 Annual Results Technical Notes for more details.

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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